20201224 eve

Happy holidays from us in the tin can by the sea. These are rough days this year. My son-in-law has come down with COVID and that has quarantined my daughter and grandson as well. My granddaughter and her son are isolated from the family due to the quarantine, with all the presents that were bought for them isolated in the house with my daughter and her family. Meanwhile, my niece and her husband are recovering from COVID that they came down with earlier in December. Further, my nephew is recovering after surgery to re-attach his retina. Another sister-in-law is recovering after surgery to replace a heart valve earlier this month. Another cousin is in cancer remission. One friend of the family has learned that he will be fighting cancer for the rest of his life. Another close friend is undergoing surgery early in January.

This year has taken it's toll on me. 

2020 has taken the lives of many dear friends and I'm sorry that I didn't say hello often enough or get a hug or handshake goodbye. "There will be another day" is no more. 

I've got to make it to tomorrow.

20201219 the Holidays

I miss my daughter, my grandchildren, and my great-grandson.

Happy holidays.

20201213 - Vaccine Day

 To date, in the USA:

Cases: 16,690,058

Deaths: 306,057

Hope: yes

The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has received clearance from the FDA, and the Moderna vaccine is right behind. Tomorrow, someone in the US, presumably a health care worker, will be inoculated against COVID-19, beginning the en masse delivery of the vaccine to US Citizens. 

There's a lot that I could say regarding the vaccine, but, right now, there's no sense in doing that. The fact is that this will save lives and people will breathe for another day. 

I could go on about our lame-duck pres' attempts to disenfranchise a large number of voters in the US, but, really, why? Why rant? The election of 2020 will be filed alongside the election of 1876, where political shenanigans abounded. 

It's vaccine day.